Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Portrait of a Young Man
Also titled Portret van een jonge man
1840 - 1860
- Medium
- copper (metal), brass (alloy), glass
- Classification
- brooch
- Dimensions
- height 38 mm x width 29 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Daguerreotypes were intimate objects. They were often preserved in small ornamental leather cases (étuis), which you could open up to view the photo in the palm of your hand. These cases were carried in one’s purse. Daguerreotypes were also incorporated in pieces of jewellery – in this case in a brooch.
